Kenneth Lum
Senior Front End Engineer at Adobe
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Lum is a Senior Front End Engineer with 15 years of experience building high-impact web applications for companies like Apple, Meta, Intuit, and Adobe. He led the rewrite of the Apple Online Store—supporting roughly $1.5B in monthly transactions—delivering the project two months ahead of schedule and specializing in performant, object-oriented vanilla JavaScript and modern ES6+ patterns. Comfortable across the stack, Kenneth pairs deep front-end craft (React/Redux, web components, CSS Grid/Flexbox, D3) with backend familiarity (Rails, Python, Go, PostgreSQL) and a knack for diagnosing tricky asynchronous bugs and race conditions. At Meta and Intuit he shipped robust data-management and tax-form systems, improving test coverage and developer workflows with Jest and typed tooling. He also contributes to developer experience through documentation work on legacy open-source frameworks, reflecting a pragmatic focus on clarity and maintainability. Based in Mountain View, he proactively redesigns UIs so users can “use without thinking,” blending engineering rigor with user-centered intuition.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
YahooArchive/mojito
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
[archiving soon] Yahoo! Mojito Framework
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Kenneth's contributions primarily involve updating documentation files related to the Mojito framework. They focused on refining existing documentation, specifically within the "dev_guide" directory, updating tutorials, introductory guides, and reference materials. The commits demonstrate an effort to improve clarity, correctness, and completeness of documentation for various aspects of the Mojito framework, including MVC architecture, testing, and binder functionality. Their work aimed to enhance the developer experience through comprehensive and up-to-date documentation.
mojitoyahooframework
jianlin/ruby192_rails304
Feb 2011 - May 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 3 years 3 months
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